Planning and writing your essays
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Planning and Beginning to Write Your Close
Reading Essay. Things to do…
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Goal:• Make a start on your close reading of film essay
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2. Click on Level Three English (EN300) on the left-hand menu.
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3) Download and save yourself a copy of our completed V for Vendetta and The Matrix notes.
•This is a list of aspects you can focus on in your close reading essay. •YOU NEED TO FOCUS ON THREE.
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3) Continued… IMPORTANT IMPORTANT…• The THREE aspects you choose to focus on should be three which all
have the same purpose:
• e.g. your three dystopian genre features all have the purpose to show who has power and who has none in dystopian worlds.
• What the aspects have in common will become the thesis of your essay.
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3) Continued some more• What are some other possible purposes you cold focus on for your
essay thesis?• Put an end to the thesis: “films of the dystopian genre use aspects
(techniques, characters…) with the purpose to…• It is ok if you don’t want to commit to a purpose or thesis now BUT
pick three aspects that have something in common (like control, power, dominance, corruption, injustice, enlightenment, integrity, rebellion, defiance…)
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4) Download, enable editing and save as the “essay planning chart”. • This is the minimum of what you need to complete today: THE V FOR
VENDETTA SIDE.
• I have done an example for you that you can download and look at (thanks Ms Gray)
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5) After that you could download, enable editing, save as and make a start on your essay (The V for Vendetta part). • Leave the introduction until last as it will introduce both V for
Vendetta and The Matrix.